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The hospitals had ample warning since the Ransom attack on a hospital in Los Angeles many moons ago, but apparently had no strategy in place in case of a similar attack. Time to get out the long knife and start firing incompetent administrators and IT professionals.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well, if you keep guns in your house and you're burgled...
How lovely that the worst ever cyber attack is the fault of the NSA.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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???? and not Microsoft who elephanted security again? Or the criminals who actually released the attack? How about the people that leaked the classified info? I guess off to the soapbox we go...
Or the administrators that cannot connect the dots? For large organizations there should be a dedicated individual / team who is point on these issues.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: not Microsoft who elephanted security again?
ms was unaware of this weapon, made by the NSA.charlieg wrote: Or the criminals who actually released the attack?
The criminals did not make the weapon, the NSA did. It's highly likely that the kind of person who goes into such criminal endeavours would not be able to make such a weapon.
Etc, to any statement that tries to divert attention away from the fact that this "weapon of mass destruction" was created and "made available" by the very organisation that is supposed to be protecting people from such things.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
No-one tough enough to keep them reined in and under control, that's quis.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The ransomware attack exploited NSA-developed vulnerabilities. It also exploited some people's inability to hear, "don't click the link"
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According to one analysis, TypeScript peaked in late 2012, then developers’ interest remained steady. TypeScript was back on their radar in 2015 and then the real growth happened. You mean people like data types? Huh.
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say what happened with typescripts popularity exploding last year is a little thing called the Angular 2 framework. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Users will no longer be locked into Ubuntu, and they can run multiple Linux distros side by side. "It's a very, very mad world"
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When the South Korean developer of a suite of productivity apps called Hancom Office incorporated an open-source PDF interpreter called Ghostscript into its word-processing software, it was supposed to do one of two things. You mean I have to do more than just include that text in my README?
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If I didn't sign a piece of paper, it's not a contract.
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New research explores the possibilities of using everyday movement to support motion-powered TENG devices. The way some people check their phones, we could power the Bellagio
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I still have my self-winding Seiko, ca 1976. A real ticking one; the grandkids are fascinated.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I love self-winding watches. I owned two self-winding Citizen, but the quality of the modern watches is lower and they lasted a very short time (2 years the first and less than 1 year the second) due to poor components and assembly quality. My dad's Seiko saw the worst punishing use you can think of and it's still up, running and kicking axes.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Quote: "We confirmed that if the mechanical energy is entirely converted into electrical energy, the energy generated by the daily motion of an arm can sufficiently cover the energy consumption of a smart watch and even the stand-by energy consumption of a smart phone."
So it needs 100% efficiency to work... Thermodynamics says NOPE! 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Thermodynamics
details, details... 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Some of recruiting’s behind-the-scenes practices could end up having a huge impact on your job search and career. That despite the job posting, the work actually entails fixing a 40 year-old system written in VB by developers who only knew programming from watching an episode of Law & Order?
phew. Now I'm all tuckered out from writing that long blurb.
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never was there an industry more ripe for disintermediation.
If anyone were to write a "Tinder for jobs", I think it would really take off.
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They missed one I have experienced a few times, and in fact, just last week. The recruiter that gets you an interview, knowing you're not qualified for the job, simply to gain more information about the job.
In my particular case, the recruiter lined up a phone interview with a company that was doing Ruby on Rails and a bunch of Javascript front-end frameworks that I've never used. That, after telling the recruiter I will never again touch Ruby, my expertise is C#/.NET/Python, and I prefer back-end work.
Amusingly, when I asked the recruiter "is the job you're trying to place me in the one listed on the company's website?" (as described above) the recruiter hemmed and hawed, and said, "well, it would be great if you do the phone interview and then we can talk afterwards because we actually don't know much about the position." [red flag emoticon]
I committed the ultimate sin and am probably black-marked for life. Using that post's lingo, I ghosted the recruiter and company.
I think it was meant to be. When it was time for the phone call, I discovered my cell phone hadn't been charged and the battery was as flat as steamrolled pancake. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software. You want security? Here's your security!
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 Idiots. Avast is one of the buggiest pieces of 'security' programs out there. Even Norton does a better job.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: ven Norton does a better job.
Now that's saying something!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I did notice that around midnight EST. It was maxing out my CPU and Memory while I getting a little dose of YouTube before nighty night.
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